{"id":6911,"date":"2017-09-20T14:41:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T18:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/20\/big-gains-and-tragic-setbacks\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:57:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:57:40","slug":"big-gains-and-tragic-setbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/big-gains-and-tragic-setbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Big gains and tragic setbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard professor and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was on campus Monday to present a program titled \u201cBlack America Since MLK.\u201d <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/2017\/09\/19\/gates-blacks-have-seen-big-gains-and-tragic-setbacks\/678061001\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong> was there to cover his talk. &#8220;To paraphrase Dickens, for some of us it\u2019s the best of times, and for other people, it\u2019s the worst of times,\u201d Gates told an audience of 600 in the Younts Conference Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard professor and Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Henry Louis Gates, Jr., was on campus Monday to present a program titled \u201cBlack America Since MLK.\u201d The Greenville News was there to cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}